The Hillhead of Auquhirie Windfarm proposal is a project of the Auquhirie Land Company Ltd and will comprise of three turbines sited roughly four kilometers South West of Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire.Some of the owners of this initiative live in The Mearns and it is their intention to use local contractors where possible to benefit the local community.
Hillhead of Auquhirie Windfarm recieved a unanimous favourable decision and was awarded planning consent on 24th March 2009 from the Kincardine & Mearns Area Committee of Aberdeenshire Council.
"We need wind energy and we need it yesterday" Mike Sullivan, Stonehaven Councillor.
The site was chosen for a variety of reasons including:
Good Wind Resource
No local or national natural heritage designations
Close to the grid which runs through the site
Close to the A90 for ease of access
The development will consist of three wind turbines that are likely to be under 80 meters from base to tip height. The final site design and turbine specifications will be decided upon after environmental monitoring is undertaken.
The four images on this page show what the windfarm may look like from the A90 Burns Memorial (top two images, lower is zoomed in) and Stonehaven War Memorial (bottom two images, second one is zoomed in)
The Auquhirie Land Company would like to thank all the team that helped acheive this successful decision, especially Fraser Mackenzie of Atmos Consulting Ltd.
